LATEINER, DONALD. — The Historical Method of Herodotus.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989. 0802057934. 1st edition. "An innovative writer in an innovative century, Herodotus made sense of a congeries of myth, poetry, monuments, and oral narratives suffused with parochial and ethnic prejudices. Now for the first time these were made to contribute to an intellectual enterprise, historical analysis. This study will show the reader how the machine works, how Herodotus argues and connects his seemingly unrelated incidents, customs, geography, and stories, distant and recent. If the historian treats problems of evidence, organization, and significance in a consistent and meaningful fashion, then we can form legitimate hypotheses regarding the method, purpose, and thinking processes of the author propr to the final redaction." Pp.xii/319. Brown cloth, a couple of small white line marks to front board. VG.